DOJ Withdraws Appeal Of Obama’s Transgender School Order

By William Teach March 3, 2017 – 7:15 am

Back in 2016, the Obama administration decided that it would be a great idea to blackmail schools into allowing the tiny number of kids who are gender confused to use the bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms (BSL) of their choice, as matches their so-called gender identity. This flew smack dab in the face of that thing called “biology” and “science”. If the schools didn’t follow the guidance, they could have lost federal funding. Because to hell with the kids who understand which BSL to use based on whether they are a pointer or a sitter. Thirteen states sued, and a federal judge put a hold on the guidance. Now

13 states, DOJ reach settlement in litigation over transgender student rights

The state of Texas and the Justice Department appear to have reached a settlement of a multi-state federal lawsuit over transgender student rights, according to a new filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

Thirteen states, led by Texas, are expected to drop a suit they filed against the Obama administration last year after it released a directive saying that Title IX — a federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs — protects against gender-identity discrimination. Former President Barack Obama’s Education and Justice departments told schools they must allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identities, and threatened withdrawal of education funds for those that did not comply with the non-binding guidance. The directive prompted nearly half of the states to sue. (sue)

And last week the Trump administration moved to rescind Obama’s directive entirely — and without it, the states and DOJ have nothing to fight about. In the filing Thursday, the Justice Department said it’s withdrawing the appeal of the nationwide ban, and the states indicated they’ll soon withdraw their suit.

The Trump guidance leaves it up to the states and school districts to decide what policy they want if they have a gender confused person at their school. Choice. Liberals like choice, don’t they? Not in this case. Liberals were very upset that they would be given the option, rather than having the federal government make it for everyone. Which is one of the reasons Trump won the majority of states, especially in the South and Heartland: people are tired of weenies in Washington making pronouncements that are idiotic and force that idiocy down their throats.

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NY Times Tells Cities To Violate Federal Law And Be Sanctuaries For Illegal Aliens,

By William Teach March 3, 2017 – 6:58 am

Lawrence Downes is a long time member of the NY Times Editorial Board, whose focus is on immigration. One would think that he is aware of federal statues against sheltering people who are unlawfully present in the United States, and that federal immigration law takes precedence over state and local law. Yet, we get this bit of insanity, which tells other cities and states to follow the example of Santa Clara, Ca., and be sanctuary cities

A ‘Sanctuary City’ Seizes the Moment, and the Name

Cities of immigrants, it’s time. Time to declare yourselves sanctuaries. To wear the label proudly, defiantly, even if the White House and its allies threaten you and utter all kinds of falsehoods against you.

President Trump is in power; his nativist ideology is now fully armed and operational. He laid it out with alarming clarity in his “America first” address to Congress this week, painting unauthorized immigrants as vicious criminals, and refugees as dangerous undesirables, using both groups as scapegoats and targets. The homeland security secretary, John Kelly, has given his boss a battle plan. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol are carrying it out, combing the country, seizing and terrifying the innocent.

If they’re “unauthorized”, that means they’re in the country illegally. Which means they shouldn’t be here. Which means they should be fearful, because they aren’t innocent. And a high ranking member of the NYTEB just proclaimed, in print, that cities should violate federal immigration law.

Now comes the typical lies and distortions

The sweeps, arrests and intimidation share a brutal randomness. A young “Dreamer” gives a news conference after her father and brother are detained — and is arrested herself. ICE stakes out a courthouse to grab a survivor of domestic violence. Border agents ask a planeload of passengers — on a domestic flight — to show their papers.

We still aren’t 100% sure why the first, Daniela Vargas, was detained, other than she allowed her DACA to lapse back in November, and, after a raid which saw her brother and father detained, an illegal handgun was found in the house.

The survivor of domestic violence? Ervin Gonzalez is a criminal absconder, having been deported six times and coming back illegally. Those deportations were for crimes including possession of stolen mail, false imprisonment and assault.

Border Agents were looking for a known criminal who was unlawfully present, and doing their jobs.

Is it any wonder the citizens distrust the media, when a screed like the above is published without the requisite information?

Many people are confused by the term “sanctuary city,” which has no strict definition. Mr. Trump uses it as an epithet to mean immigrant-loving communities that allow alien criminals to roam free. Used that way, the label is false; no city can suspend the rule of law or keep out the feds. But rather than tolerating such slander, cities should seize back the term, defining sanctuaries as places that stand for reason in the face of overreaching, unjust and often lawless federal enforcement.

They should do what Santa Ana, Calif., has done. It is a city of 335,000, in the heart of Orange County, whose City Council has passed one of the boldest and most far-reaching sanctuary ordinances in the state. In a county that has long been known as a haven of white Republicans, Santa Ana is a mixed-race, mixed-income, All-American town. Its population is about 46 percent immigrant, and its mayor and its six City Council members are all Latino.

The rest continues in the same vein: essentially, Downes recommends violations of federal law.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Warmists Trot Out Doctored Photo For Scary Story

By William Teach March 2, 2017 – 4:34 pm

Yesterday, I showed you how a story on Christian Warmists praying about ‘climate change’ for Lent used a doctored photo. Now we get this via Watts Up With That?

MSN appears to be a source of climate fear mongering and “fake climate news” based on their story under the headlines Antarctica hits record high temperature at balmy 63.5°F .

The story was accompanied by what can only be a horribly photo-shopped photograph for the unassuming warmunista of a mushroom-shaped ice form teetering on a rocky outcrop.

Here’s that photo

Supposedly it was photographed on the opposite side of the continent from which the record temperature occurred. Climbing such a structure would be a difficult technical climb for an experienced mountaineer. Furthermore when Adele penguins come ashore to breed they avoid the ice if possible, only crossing snowfields as the seek ice-free breeding territories. Lastly if you magnify the picture 500%, the penguins become extremely pixilated, the ice chunk less so, and the background rocks even less so, a fingerprint of 3 different photographs with different resolution that have been overlain.

In fact, the photo was taken “on a rocky shoreline at Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, in East Antarctica, on Jan. 1, 2010.” Seriously, how did the penguins get up there? The shadows to the right are wrong. Where’s the wetness from the melting ice? The penguins look like they’re actually about to dive into the water. Photoshop software shows lots of artifacts that do not belong. It really does look like 3 different photos put together.

This is how the Cult of Climastrology does it: by lying.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 2, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible war machine made more likely to be used due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on a revealing word.

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Totally New Idea: Sell ‘Climate Change’ To Skeptics By Changing The Wording

By William Teach March 2, 2017 – 10:30 am

By new idea, they mean trying the same old same old. This is Salon being Salon, and uber-nutty Amanda Marcotte being uber-nutty

Conservatives are willing to combat climate change — when it’s not called “climate change”
Conservatives have a kneejerk reactions to the phrase, so environmentalists are finding ways to reframe the issue

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The grim fact of the matter is that we cannot count on the federal government to step up efforts to deal with climate change, for the next four years at least. So some scientists are turning hopefully towards leaders in local governments, hoping they can use what power they have to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the damage already being created by global warming.

The problem is that many communities have conservative populations that, for ideological reasons, refuse to accept that climate change is real, and as such will resist local leaders who attempt interventions that appear to be rooted in an acceptance of the scientific facts. But there may be a way to get conservative constituents to agree to actions to address climate change: Package the policies using other terms.

As Rebecca J. Romsdahl, an environmental science and policy professor at the University of North Dakota, and her team of researchers have discovered, that’s what a number of local leaders are already doing. In 2013 and 2014, Romsdahl and her colleagues published findings from a survey of local leaders in the Great Plains states in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences and Review of Policy Research that found that many local leaders are framing their climate change policies under banners like “sustainability” or “energy savings,” instead of invoking a concept that rings too many alarm bells.

Personally, I have no problem with energy savings and sustainability, as long as they are not forced on me by government decree. As long as they are not artificially increasing my cost of living. As long as they are not creating problems, like, say, catching my yard on fire

Energy-efficient windows blamed for starting fires

Investigators told Nancy Monda that the first fire at her Davie County home appeared to be arson.

Monda’s security cameras filmed the yard smoking at first, then the flames appeared. The fire raced across her yard and surrounded a propane tank.

Two days later, another fire started in the same spot.

Investigators came back and poked around the property. This time, though, one of them felt a clue: sunlight reflecting off a neighbor’s brand new, energy-efficient window.

The firefighter’s report describes the reflection as so intense that a person couldn’t hold his hand in the light for more than 30 seconds before it felt like it was burning.

This happened four times in a week. The same thing has happened in many other places. The windows, called Low E windows, were required by law in North Carolina, until the NC Building Code Council approved a temporary ruling to no longer require their usage until the fire issue could be resolved. So far, no solution has been found, other than not using these types of windows, which are mandate in many, many cities and states across the nation. Which can cause fires, melt siding and plastic parts on cars. Government requirements at their best.

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Illegal Alien Demands Pathway To Citizenship, ICE Arrests Her Shortly After

By William Teach March 2, 2017 – 8:46 am

This has made a good many liberal outlets unhinged, as you can imagine

(Clarion Ledger) Moments after an immigrant spoke out about her fears of deportation, she was detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Daniela Vargas, 22, was detained by ICE agents Wednesday morning, shortly after speaking at a news conference in downtown Jackson, according to her attorney, Abby Peterson. (snip)

Vargas was 7 years old when her family came to America from Argentina, placing her under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, immigration policy. Under the policy, DACA recipients have to reapply every two years. Vargas’ DACA is expired but her renewal application is pending.

Peterson said she told agents via telephone Vargas had a pending DACA case. However, agents reportedly told Peterson that Vargas was a “visa overstay” and will be detained.

Vargas has no bond and is in ICE detention.

Her father and brother were detained in mid-February, but, she was not. There was a report of a handgun present in the home, which, surprise surprise, is a felony, since those unlawfully present in the U.S. are forbidden to have any guns.

Essentially, she was out there giving a speech demanding that she and the other Dreamers be given legal status. After failing to reapply for DACA status on time. ICE has stated that this was a targeted detainment, so, all those leftist media outlets freaking out might end up with egg on their face when the information on “why” comes out. Funny, ICE isn’t given credit by the media for things like this

And, a bit to the east of Raleigh, ICE targeted another illegal alien, for which “ICE officials stressed that this action was “not a standard immigration action” and was part of a larger federal investigation.”

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Suddenly, Trump Reading From A Teleprompter Is A Bad Thing

By William Teach March 2, 2017 – 8:15 am

For eight years, we were treated to the Greatest Orator Ever!!!!! speaking from a teleprompter. Conservatives even came up with a name for Obama’s teleprompter: TOTUS. Teleprompter Of The United States. And discussed TOTUS as if it were alive. There were lots of jokes about this, most in jest, some nasty. Because, when it came down to it, Obama was barely able to speak in Adult without TOTUS.

Now, let’s be honest: for all the jokes about Obama speaking with TOTUS, the man gave great speeches using TOTUS. No one on the right really thinks poorly of Obama for using teleprompters to give speeches, because so many politicians do, at least on longer ones. But, get this

From the screed by Andrew Rosenthal (via Twitchy)

First as a candidate, and now as president, Donald Trump has drawn fire for promising the moon and stars without giving the slightest hint of how he intended to obtain them. In fact, as Tuesday night’s speech to Congress demonstrated so clearly, the president is actually a master of the art of diminished expectations.

On Tuesday night, we are told, he looked sober and presidential, when all he actually did was read a speech from a Teleprompter without veering off into one of his incoherent rants. It’s hard to believe that even the ill-disciplined and narcissistic Trump would have stood in the well of the House of Representatives and tried to lead a chant of “lock her up” or slapped journalists with the “enemy of the people” label that has been a favorite of dictators for more than a century.

That’s right, Trump is being slammed for just reading a speech from a Teleprompter. If you want incoherence, how about Obama unable to make his remarks because the teleprompter wasn’t programed? He was handed the speech, and still didn’t give it.

We’ve already had the media whining about Trump playing golf, something they never bothered with when Obama was in office. Now, the teleprompter. I can’t wait to see what other hypocrisy they drop on us.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Christians Urged To Pray On Climate Change (Using Shoddy “Science”)

By William Teach March 1, 2017 – 3:30 pm

Instead of praying, they should try practicing what they preach and make their own lives carbon neutral by giving up the use of fossil fuels, air conditioners, ice makers, hair dryers, washing machines, etc and so on

Christians urged to pray about climate change during Lent

Christians in seven countries are being urged to pray during Lent for families at risk from climate change.

It’s hoped tens of thousands of believers will also call on governments to uphold their pledges on carbon emissions, to help prevent devastating consequences such as rising sea levels and food shortages.

Tearfund is supporting the Renew our World initiative.

Its Advocacy director Paul Cook told Premier he’s seen first hand the damage it can do.

Here’s the handy dandy photo used

This is a photo, taken by John Giles. It has appeared numerous times, such as this Guardian article. You can find it all over the Internet as a sign of ‘climate change’ doom.

But, see, there’s a wee bit of a problem: the photo is doctored. It’s of the Eggborough power plant in England. Every photo of the plant that is not doctored shows white, or mostly white, steam coming from all the stacks. If it was coming out like in the photo, you can bet authorities would be all over it in a heartbeat.

Anyway, these Warmists can pray all they want over an issue that is about as fake as that photo.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 1, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…are trees dying from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the nutty claim of Ashley Judd.

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Shell Totally Knew About Climate Change In 1991 Or Something

By William Teach March 1, 2017 – 10:39 am

The UK Guardian, and all the leftist media outlets which have followed on with unhinged screeds, thinks it has found the smoking gun

‘Shell knew’: oil giant’s 1991 film warned of climate change danger
Public information film unseen for years shows Shell had clear grasp of global warming 26 years ago but has not acted accordingly since, say critics

The oil giant Shell issued a stark warning of the catastrophic risks of climate change more than a quarter of century ago in a prescient 1991 film that has been rediscovered.

However, since then the company has invested heavily in highly polluting oil reserves and helped lobby against climate action, leading to accusations that Shell knew the grave risks of global warming but did not act accordingly.

Shell’s 28-minute film, called Climate of Concern, was made for public viewing, particularly in schools and universities. It warned of extreme weather, floods, famines and climate refugees as fossil fuel burning warmed the world. The serious warning was “endorsed by a uniquely broad consensus of scientists in their report to the United Nations at the end of 1990”, the film noted.

“If the weather machine were to be wound up to such new levels of energy, no country would remain unaffected,” it says. “Global warming is not yet certain, but many think that to wait for final proof would be irresponsible. Action now is seen as the only safe insurance.”

Of course, this back in 1991. Things change. Research provides new answers. New data comes to light. The Guardian makes a big deal out of this

Except, reality looks like this

Which one is wrong, the observations or the models? The doomy predictions of the 1990’s turned into the Great Pause, a time of statistically insignificant warming, which none of the models accounted for. The excuses for the pause range from “it didn’t occur!!!!!!” to “nature is masking the manmade warming.” Funny how the warming can never be from nature, wouldn’t you say?

I certainly was a Warmist back in 1991. I was a believer that the warming was mostly/solely caused by Mankind as recent as 2004. However, at that point, I was able to use the power of the Internet to see other data, other rationales, other hypotheses, and rebuttals to the Cult Of Climastrology. I was no longer living on the spoonfuls of leftist propaganda from limited outlets. And I was able to see that this whole thing has little to do with nature and just about everything to do with enacting Progressive (nice fascist) big centralized government policies of control and taxation.

So, yeah, maybe Shell knew in 1991. Research brings about new views.

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